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Flirting With Mac OS X

An anonymous reader wrote to us with an article on Byte from Moshe Bar about flirting with using OS X. Taco and I are both strongly considering beginning to use OS X as a primary laptops - anyone else looking at doing this? And anyone from Apple that can get me a good price on super TiBooks? *grin*

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  1. Only 1 button! by gdc34 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But mummy, its only got one trackpad button!

  2. sellouts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Michael and Taco are both sellouts. This proves it. Go ahead and dump linux, it sucks, has always sucked, and will always suck turds out the ass of a sick pig.
    .
    Slashdot => "sellouts" & "no_credibility"

  3. What's the point of this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why is slashdot turning into an Apple cheerleading site? I know MacOS is super-cool (and I've been impressed with what I've seen of it), but do we need to be updated on every last piece of gossip about who's considering using oh ess ecks this week? Moreover, do we need the slashdot editors begging for freebies on the front pages? Come on, people, show a little dignity.

  4. uh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "nothing beats pine."?

    he's clearly delusional. pine's for pussies.

  5. Go for it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Unless you're worried about having an out of date OS & having to pay full wack for any upgrades. Oh, and having obsolete hardware when apple switch to intel processors...

    Yours, 1 VERY pissed off apple iMac owner (OS 10.1!).

  6. Re:Go for it. by Xouba · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I use nothing but OS X on the beast (Up the RAM to at least 384Mb)

    Ehm ... you don't mean that it *needs* 384MB, right?

    <rant>I'm beginning to think that everyone is thinking that OS X is great just because of the everyone-says-it syndrome: there are a few people that keep on repeating that "OS X is cool" again and again, and the feeble minded just swallow it. You know, brainwashing. Yeah, it may be cool, but all this switch fever is something that I barely understand.</rant>

  7. Re:SWITCH.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    My name is cmdrTaco
    I run a leanding linux news site.
    linux for x86 is getting killed by palladium
    So I switched to Mac

  8. Re:I did enjoy this part of the article: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Then go over to Apple HQ and suck on Stevie boys cock for a nice long while and maybe if you make him cum all over your slutty little face he will release it for you.

    Seriously.

  9. Re:Laptop is apple's strength by Nexus7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why stop at the trackpoint and 3 buttons? Add an IBM case with IBM engineering too. It won't shine like a cheap whore, but it'll have a subtle glitter embedded in the anti-slip rubber coating. It'll also have an unobstrusive night light. Memory will be cheap, peripherals will be user-swappable, and you'll be able to put bog standard Linux on it. And your money will go to a company that does everything from specialized software to fundamental research, not some self congratulatory Taiwanese notebook rebadger such as Apple.

  10. Re:Asthetics by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just like dishing out catty comments like the above has always been the realm of fag0rtz. Pot. Kettle. Black... You must be a homo too. Stop posting anonymously and come out of the closet, it'll make your life so much better.

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  11. bastardo by doktorjayd · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    somethign snide about cheap TiBook

    get faaaaaaarkeed

    uses g4-450 daily & cant squeeze hard enough

  12. Huh? by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Apple is closed, proprietary hardware and software. Aren't we supposed to inherently distrust closed software because we can't audit the code for bugs and security problems?

    We shouldn't trust Apple farther than we can throw them, but we're promoting the use of their closed OS (and an overpriced one, at that.). What gives?

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    --sdem
  13. MacOS = good, Apple = bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple has the most crappy hardware in the market, except in the case you like the toilet bowl look for your next laptop. Should I talk about the cube? Mac box sux!

    On the other side, MacOSX is interesting. If it was avaliable for x86, and if that application bar didn't suck that much space, and if I was able to bear the Apple look and general system organisation, i'd go for it ;) (it means I'll probably never go for it ;)

    Gnome/KDE NOW! Stop sucking Apple, there just like M$ but actually good in marketing to make you eat their crappy products.

  14. Silly question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    And anyone from Apple that can get me a good price on super TiBooks? *grin*

    If Apple's computers were worth it, you wouldn't ask such a silly question. Of course, many people (not just yourself) recognize the special position Apple is in and are ready-and-willing to be "bought".

  15. Nothing beats... PINE!?!?! by jbuilder · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Moshe writes:

    Multiple terminal sessions (screen, Linux virtual terminals, Emacs, vim) and a good e-mail client (nothing beats pine).

    At this moment I stopped reading the article. Anyone who would say that PINE is a BETTER email client that MUTT (http://www.mutt.org/) is obviously a dolt and not worth the effort.

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    Polymorphism -- It's what you make of it.
  16. Re:Mac Laptops hi there sugarbitch multibutton by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    here is a single mouse button single command key asshole from teh realm of mac. you are such a stupid cunt. you have never used anything, you make judgements on the fucking shit ibook or other fucking crap you own and extrapolate to other laptops. death

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    Frisbee Fan He likes flying rims. Reminds his half gay side of giving rim jobs.

    Insanity^13 Reads: Insanity to the thirteenth power. Insanity seem to me to be a clinical Boolean, either one isn't, or is by some definition. If anything, you could be some percentage of insane, but to raise insanity to a power, well, that just the droppings of a stupid mind. Like the mind of Tevis Bitch Money.

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    Mac Freak^2 Mac Freak. Squared. That applies I guess. What I pay for my computer: (PC Price)^2. But he forgets to mention the appropriate performance; sqrt (PC Performance) = Mac.

    Windows Hater He hates Winderz but has been known to say that it is outsmarting Linux. Tevis the fuck-head likes to personify inanimate objects because he is Insane to the Thirteenth power. Dum dum duuuum. And whats with this person being multiple persons. Is he a Windows Hater or a Linux Padawan? Are you part Padawan and Part Windows Hater? Each of these is a whole unto themselves. Now schizophrenia is not ruled out, but this is ridiculous. JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER of NONE

    Linux Padawan This is similar to something a has been would say, but this dipshit is a Linux "never will be". He has never used it, has never used gcc, redone his own kernel, written anything in C, (or C++, Java, Lisp), can not use VI or Emacs, probably knows Pine and Pico real well which makes him Padawan. What a fucking gay term. This is the type of Fuck, Tevis, that Liked Jar Jar binks. He is the archetype of one who has helped George Puke-ass further defile Star Wars. Your fat sexless loser creed is not applicable to everyone, despite what you may believe.

    I also believe Tevis to be a boy scout. But his troopmaster calls him a boi scout. He know how to use a canoe paddle, but really likes them with the crock on the end cut off and the pole of the paddle inserted by his troop master in his ass. He got is LIFE badge by being a venue of GAY LIFE for his troopmaster, which he calls Cockmaster Joe.

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    , I remember. I was day dreaming, escaping into a nether world where we used to fornicate, and live in fornicatory bliss. You used to like to keep your tubes socks on to enhance they gay look. We were so flitty and light on our feet. I am so very confused these days. I have difficulty conceptualizing the time that was then in contrast to now. I mean, first you were a raging homosexual, now you wont look me in the eye because of this anime woman. I know that bitch is a transvestite, and you lust after my ass while you are being tentacle raped. You are closeting your homosexuality and denying your roots in my ass! Don't be fooled! TEVIS MONEY knows how to suck a dick. He may nibble, and bite, and pretend to be sheepish at first, but deep down this cock loving acolyte of shaft licks cock like a bar maid. I am destabilizing. The world is going dark to me. I have scintillating threads of motley thoughts; my ability to control my self evanesces away! I have only an adamantine desire to see your balloon knot once again, and to have you ravage mine! TEVIS MONEY - I NEED YOUR HOT MAN SEX NOW. This is your long lost butt buddy Troopmaster Joe, please come back, my son's ass isn't has good as yours!


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  17. Re:Ugh, where to begin... sugarbitch back again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    defending the mac. defending. mister xp defendnig the mac. well, at least on win32 i can get cracks for shit that acts lame, like region enforcing crap. apple software is commecial crap. closed source with a fake bone thrown called useless darwin. you think you work at apple you dumb shit? how the FUCK do you know what apple's lawyers do? hmmmmm? how the FUCK? all i know is that apple bought out software companies and dropped the more popular win32 versions of thse products to create an artificial demand for the FUCKING CRAP PPC with the fucking slow pig fat OS X. FUCK YOU TEVIS KNOW NOTHING CRAPPER SHITTER EXTRAPOLATOR LIAR.

  18. Re:Mac Lapt sugarbitch thinks getting ripped=good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You spelled around and anniversary incorrectly. This is like the one hundredth such egregious errors I have seen from you in such a short while. Anyways, lets get to work. If you look at the balance sheet and stock prices of your typical PC vendor versus Apple, I think we can safely say good money was made in the PC industry, and best of all, the uses of those machines don't have a sore ass or a zealot community. You would insinuate that somehow PC vendors are cheesy Chevrolet and Apple is a good Toyota or Honda. I say, bull shit. This is a commodity style bizarre of PC parts, the cheapest bid winds, and the glass epoxy for all this crap gets poured in the same Taiwanese factory. Believe it. I have seen Mac hardware, from before when you were using them, Centris, Quadra, Color Mac, etc. The days of Apple having something special ended with the Quadra, and the denigration started with crap like the Centris. So please, you have no basis to say that Apple can roll it out faster. They basically use immoral strong arm tactics on their uses all the time and then get them to like for the sake of innovation. Need 1394 on a PC, get a fucking Audigy. Need USB, BFD, get a fucking PCI card. What's the big fucking deal? And also, I can still use anything I want from my piles of legacy crap lying around. Mac forces people to throw out hardware or be pigeonholed . I really resent types like you, newbies. I haven't had PCI on a PC board for years. I don't know what you are talking about. And while PCs were enjoying VESA VLB, you idiots were still using some crap and NUBUS, which failed. As for all the other busses you mention, the are fucking slow. Who cares about slow things and junk IO? What's the big deal. Its not like Apple wired up the internal hard drives with firewire. No they use the same junk PCs do. Retard. They used to use SCSI, but you stupid consumers of Apple's never noticed them fucking you over on that.

    So, high profit margins gets you a 65 dollar sound card and firewire on the motherboard, and you feel good about that, that would make you a fucking idiot.

  19. Re:Time-based quote sugarbitch "AFAIK" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    typical. you wouldnt test that theory before you sprayed it on slashdot. you ejaculate all sorts of garbage here and you get away with it - for now. i cant believe this crap. this pure, complete crap. and you post at +2 to make your foolery easy to spot. I mean, i spotted you because of that. i have never felt so compelled to tell you how dumb you look, but you seem to troll apple stories, i know you would get fuckin assasinated on political or unix threads. pure crap. youa re pure fucking unadulterated crap. look, if you tell him to do something in OS X, be certain of it. dont dislaim, AFAIK, with your cutsie, lollie, shit acronyms you use on everquest and making gay RPG games and loser stories.

  20. Re:Mac Laptops troll. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    moderate parent troll. oh, and without software, explain to the public how 3 button mice work on Classic without software. thats what i thought. macs ignorant behavior about mice is just one of many things that make the company a niche full of losers and zealots.

  21. Re:Mac Laptops sugarbitch on bathroom stalls. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    need gay sex, goto bathroom stalls in rest areas in the NY upstate area, get tevis's number from stall wall or metal divider, call and fuck. he even swallows after your dick has been in his ass, so make sure you are up on your hepatitis shots.

  22. Re:I did enjoy this part of the article: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    About the stalker remark. Typical. You can't handle a problem so you label someone. I try and challenge you so that you can show you are not a farce, and you try to marginalize the "perpetrator" of your woes. You are like a certain Attorney General, calling everything that moves a terrorist. Same simplistic mentality. "Stalker." hahahahaha. Anyone who challenges you on Slashdot is a STALKER? hahahahaha.

    Dude, you so still live at home. With your father's second hand computer as your own. You barely hold down a job at Radio Shack. You are a pimply, fat undisciplined sexless suppressed homosexual. You are not planning on attending college. You have little aspirations other than immersing yourself in Slashdot and RPGs. You are the fat, lazy pathetic person that it weakening this country. You are the scum of the earth.

  23. Re:This sugarbitch fucks gerbils by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now since my gerbil left me, I've found a new place to dwell
    There's lots of furry rodents there at Hamster Hotel
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    Dressed in their duct-tape lingerie.
    It's technic'ly still legal (except in Arkansas)
    So grab a length of rubber tube and kneel down on the floor
    They're looking so sexy, they're looking so sexy,
    Dressed in their duct-tape lingerie.
    So if your gerbil leaves you, don't stutter and don't weep
    'Cause if these friends don't satisfy, you know there's always sheep!
    They're looking so sexy, they're looking so sexy,
    Dressed in their duct-tape lingerie.

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  24. Re:I did enjoy this part of the article: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    - this isnt voice mail or answering machine, this is slashdot, you fucking idiot.
    - this forum isnt a letter, note, card gift or a dead animal, you fucking idiot. this is an opt in forum.
    - this is not a method of proactive contact since all conject is a matter of subjecting one's self to this content. there are no threats here either. fucking idiot.
    - this isnt obsesive, i find it amusing. this isnt phone or mail.

    so your fucking stupid, unapplicable notion of stalker is not vaild in reference to this.

    this is typical of those who feel compelled to criticize that which they do not understand or cannot compete with. typical loser attitude to deprecate the metric that one loses by.

    i am made sick by this malignment. i cannot believe that fervent intellctual combat is likened to stalking. you abuse the term and look only more the fool. i also would like to point out you have no credentials to levy such judgement, and your line of thinking is flawed, inaccurate and zealous. sorry again, you fucking stupid, uneducated moronic foul illiterate obnoxious slimy piece of carmelized dog shit. you know nothing, are nothing and will continue to be nothing.

  25. Re:Laptop is apple's strength sugarbitch whatever. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    For a unix guy you can't even fucking link you dumb mother fucker.
    <a href="http://mAIsE.isgay.com/">Click here for important information about idiotic Zealot fag who pretends to be a former 'unix' user</a>
    Your use of the dollar sign in the spelling of MSFT is a dead shithead giveaway, you know NOTHING. About the fonts, I have never had a problem making Unix fonts look proper, oh gee it took some effort, and as far as your idiot statement about windows fonts, I really don't know what the flying fuck you are talking about. There are many, many manipulations of fonts on Windows, and the TT stuff is a vector scalable font system, so from 1 pt to 500 pt, it looks the same, with crisp vector edges. If you use any adobe application for Windows, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, there are more options than God has for manipulating fonts. And Mac Office X and Office 2000/ or XP both product the same output quality on both platforms, Sorry, asshole, you lose. Have fun with the snail-speed PPC.

    You use Windows XP, IE 6 and OS X factory install, you are way too stupid to install OS X yourself.

    You never set up Debian. You lie like a rug.

    With your new special commercial OS, could you find it in your stupid, stupid dumb heart to use a spell checker - you stupid fucking idiot.

    Click here for important information about idiotic Zealot fag who pretends to be a former 'unix' user